Program Honorary “R” The recipient of this award need not have been a student–athlete at Rice or Cocktails have attended the university. The recipient 6:30 p.m. is selected for his or her long-standing support of Rice Athletics by his or her Welcome attendance, enthusiasm and involvement. 7 p.m. John D. Witten ’85, Director, “R” Association Distinguished “R” Invocation This award is bestowed upon a Joe Hornberger ’01 alum and member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes the “R” Association who has led an exemplary life; is well-adjusted with respect Dinner to his or her personal, family, civic and 7:30 p.m. public responsibilities; and has achieved distinction and success in his or her chosen Presentation following dinner field of business or profession, while Nate Griffin, Master of Ceremonies maintaining an interest in athletics at Rice after graduation. Honorary “R” Award Bob and Betty Bixby

Rice Hall of Fame Distinguished “R” Award In 1970, Rice Athletics founded the Kenny Baldwin ’80 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame to honor Brian Patterson ’84 those who possess or have possessed, in addition to outstanding ability in sports, Rice Hall of Fame Inductees other admirable qualifications such as Morris Almond ’07 sportsmanship, character and integrity, and who have brought great distinction Jim Bevan to Rice University. Jason Colwick ’10 Michael Harris ’05 Pat Krieger ’82 Jeff Nichols ’01 Shaquandra Roberson ’00 Joe Savery ’08 Charles Torello ’99 TOAST Joe Karlgaard Honorary “R” Award Distinguished “R” Award

Kenny Baldwin ’80 A three-year letterman who was selected by the Detroit Tigers in 1979 draft, Kenny Baldwin joined the consulting division of what was then Arthur Andersen in 1981 after stints in the Tigers’ and Dodgers’ farm systems. Over his 28 year career, Baldwin served in several leadership positions, retiring in 2008 as the global managing partner of the Energy Practice. He has served on several nonprofit boards, including the local chapters of Texas Special Olympics, MHMRA and Child Advocates. Baldwin currently serves on the board of stewards of his church, Chapelwood United Methodist Church. In 2008, Baldwin and his wife, Melissa, founded SpringSpirit Baseball, a youth sports, education and mentoring ministry dedicated to improving the lives of underprivileged youths in Spring Branch, Texas. SpringSpirit serves over Bob and Betty Bixby 2,000 youths annually. Baldwin and his wife have been married 19 years and are the proud parents of two boys, Hunter (17) and Ty (16). Bob and Betty Bixby have been ardent supporters of Rice Athletics over the years as both fans and donors. In 2007, they provided the lead gift for the Robert E. and Elizabeth W. Bixby Academic Center located in the Youngkin Center for Athletic and Academic Excellence. The Bixbys have also pledged the gift for the new indoor hitting facility. Betty currently serves as president of the Women’s Athletic Advisory Board and Bob is the Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Bob and colleagues are working on the traveling salesperson problem, which involves finding an optimal path for a salesperson to take when traveling through a specified number of cities; Brian Patterson ’84 the problem has applications in science and engineering, including the A former football Rice walk-on and three-year football letterman, Brian manufacture of circuit boards. Patterson quickly drew the attention of the coaches with his hard work, perseverance and leadership, traits that transitioned into a highly successful business career which allowed him to provide the naming gift for the Brian Patterson Sports Performance Center at Rice. Patterson was elected to the Rice University Board of Trustees this year and is the founder of White Star Real Estate and managing partner of White Star Real Estate Russia, White Star Real Estate Polska and White Star Real Estate Europe. He also co- founded Archive Management Solutions (later rebranded as Iron Mountain) with operations in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Denmark. He is the longest- serving board member of the Friends of Litewska Children’s Hospital Foundation in Warsaw, Poland. He received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1989. He graduated in 1984 from Rice University, where he earned Academic All-American honors. Hall of Fame Inductee Hall of Fame Inductee Morris Almond ’07 Jim Bevan Morris Almond was a two-time All-American and the 2007 Conference USA One of the most successful coaches in Rice history, Jim Bevan has led the Player of the Year. Almond twice led the team in scoring, setting a school Owls to 11 conference championships between cross-country and track single-season scoring record with 844 points as a senior. He ranks fourth and field during his 12 years as head . A part of the Rice program for on the all-time Rice list with 1,825 points. A native of Dalton, Ga., he holds 31 seasons, Bevan has been named Coach of the Year 11 times among the school record for 30- games. Almond is in the top 10 in field goals the SWC, WAC and C-USA. In 2017, Bevan received the Elizabeth Gillis made, free throws made, percentage and blocks. Almond was Award for Exemplary Service at Rice University. Bevan led the Owls to a rare selected in the first round of the 2007 NBA draft by the and played Triple Crown in 2008 when they won C-USA conference championships in parts of three seasons in the NBA with the Jazz and . cross-country and indoor and outdoor track and field. Bevan has coached 19 All-Americans since 2005, and the Owls have won 81 individual conference titles. In addition, Bevan has helped guide and coach Funmi Jimoh and Lennie Waite to Olympic careers. Hall of Fame Inductee Hall of Fame Inductee Jason Colwick ’10 Michael Harris ’05 Jason Colwick was a two-time NCAA Champion in the pole vault, claiming Michael Harris is Rice’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder, both the indoor and outdoor titles during his dominant 2009 season. That with 2,014 points and 1,111 rebounds. A three-time All-Western Athletic same season he established a Rice record during the outdoor season, Conference selection, Harris is the only player in school history to lead the clearing 5.72 meters (18-9.25), a mark that still stands today. Colwick also Owls in scoring, rebounding and percentage all four years at Rice. broke the school record in the indoor vault in 2010, soaring 5.67 meters As a senior, Harris also led in free throw percentage and blocks. Harris holds the (18-7.25), a mark that also still holds. In addition, Colwick placed second in school record for field goals made, double-doubles, double-digit point games the vault at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships. Colwick was honored and double-digit games. He is in the top 10 in field goal percentage, with the 2010 Bob Quin Award, won the 2008 C-USA outdoor pole vault free throw percentage, blocks, steals and 20-point games and is the only player title, and swept the 2010 pole vault titles during the indoor and outdoor to record at least 600 points and 350 rebounds in a season. Harris led the Owls seasons. He was the recipient of the 2010 Emmett Brunson Award in 2010 to 69 wins during his time at Rice, including berths in the National Invitation and was the 2008–2009 Fred J. and Florence Stancliff Award winner. Tournament as a junior and senior. Following Rice, the 2005 CollegeInsider. Colwick placed 14th at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and also competed at com All-American played three seasons in the NBA for the Rockets, the 2016 Olympic Trials. Washington Wizards and Utah Jazz. He currently plays in China for the Sichuan Blue Whales of the Chinese Basketball Association, which he led to the league championship in 2015–16 and was named the Most Valuable Player. Hall of Fame Inductee Hall of Fame Inductee Pat Krieger ’82 Jeff Nichols ’01 One of the top scorers in Rice women’s basketball history, Pat Krieger Nearly two decades after Jeff Nichols threw his last pitch for Rice, his 42 currently ranks second with 1,851 points. She led the Owls in scoring in career victories remain the school record, an accomplishment made all the 1979–80 and 1980–81 (16.8 points per game) and holds the record for the more impressive with the power-packed bats and baseballs used during his most field goals made in a single season (231 in 1979–80). The recipient of career. In his first year, Nichols went 10-2 with a 3.42 ERA and was named the 1982 Joyce Pounds Hardy Award, Krieger was named the Hackerman Freshman All-American by both Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball. Award winner in 1979 and 1980 and was the first recipient of a women’s He picked up the win over Southwest Missouri State in the opener of the basketball scholarship at Rice. In 1982, Krieger became Rice’s first A.I.W.A. 1997 NCAA Regional and set the stage for Rice’s first berth in a College All-American and was also a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American (1981 (CWS) appearance. The true freshman was then selected by and 1982). Her 555 points during the 1979–80 campaign ranks second in Coach Graham to start the program’s first-ever CWS game, where he allowed school history, and her career scoring average of 16.5 points per game ranks just two runs over six innings to eventual national champion Louisiana State third. In addition, Krieger ranks seventh on Rice’s all-time rebounding list with University. He was selected by the Florida Marlins in the 1999 MLB draft but 740 total boards. chose to remain at Rice; however, an injury sidelined him for most of 2000. He returned to action in 2001 and totaled four more wins and a in 41.1 innings over 14 appearances. In addition to the record for career wins, Nichols ranks second in innings (427.1) and third in both (392) and appearances (88). Hall of Fame Inductee Hall of Fame Inductee Shaquandra Roberson ’00 Joe Savery ’08 Shaquandra Roberson was a three-time All-American, garnering all three Joe Savery, who pitched and played first base, was one of the top two-way honors during the 2000 season in which she was named the Eva Jean Lee players in three seasons at Rice before he was selected in the first round of the Award winner as the most outstanding Rice women’s track and field athlete. 2007 draft. Named the 2005 National Freshman of the Roberson placed fourth in both the 800-meter and 1500-meter races at the Year by two publications, Savery was the Western Athletic Conference Player 2000 NCAA Outdoor Championships while running the anchor leg on the of the Year as well as First-Team All-Conference after hitting .382 with a .559 distance medley relay team that placed sixth. She was the only athlete at the slugging percentage while winning eight games on the mound with a 2.43 ERA outdoor national meet to score in the 800 and 1500, and her performance and 129 strikeouts in 118.2 innings. He led the Owls to back-to-back berths led to a 25th-place team finish. A Fred J. and Florence Stancliff Award in the College World Series. He was a consensus First-Team All-America as recipient for academic and track and field performance in 1999, Roberson a junior in 2007, batting .356 with 60 RBI in 70 games and was 11-1 with won four Western Athletic Conference titles; individual victories in the mile a 2.99 ERA in 18 starts. A finalist for the 2007 Dick Howser Trophy, given and 3000-meter while also being a part of two distance medley relay team annually to the nation’s top collegiate baseball player, Savery was Rice’s Dell titles. Roberson played a key role in cross-country as well and was a major Morgan Award winner for a second time, and Conference USA named him as contributor in the Owls’ triple crown of the WAC in 1999–2000, leading the the league’s 2007 Male Athlete of the Year. He finished his career with the fifth- Owls to championships in cross-country, indoor track and field, and outdoor highest career batting average (.356), fifth-most hits (261), fifth-most doubles track and field. In addition, Roberson qualified for the 2000 Olympic Trials in (56), eighth-most RBI (169) and eighth-most starts as a (46) in school the 800-meter and 1500-meter races. history. Savery reached the major leagues with the Phillies in 2011.

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1970 Charels Torello ’99 Tony Bell ’19, football, basketball, baseball, track and field Eddie Dyer ’22, football, baseball Charles Torello rose from walk-on to All-American during his career at Rice. Wash “Little Heavy” Underwood ’27, football, baseball After a redshirt season in 1995, the former defensive lineman out of Pearce Emmett Brunson ’29, track and field, coach, administration High School in Richardson, Texas, became a fixture in the lineup after moving Claude Bracey ’30, track and field Jake Hess ’32, tennis to the offensive line in spring 1996. He progressed so rapidly that he found Bill Wallace ’36, football himself in the starting lineup for the opener at Ohio State that fall, the first of John McCauley ’36, football 44 consecutive starts, while leading the way for a Rice rushing attack that led Fred Wolcott ’40, track and field James “Froggy” Williams ’50, football the Western Athletic Conference and ranking among the national leaders each Dicky Maegle ’55, football year. He was a second-team, All-WAC selection as a sophomore and a first- Fred Hansen ’63, track and field team pick as a junior and senior. After plowing the way for the Owls to average 333 yards per game — second best in the nation — Torello became the first 1971 Marion “Preacher” Lindsey ’22, football, track and field Rice offensive lineman in 33 years to earn All-American honors after he was John “Big Heavy” Underwood ’22, football named to The Sporting News’ third team. Lou Hassell ’33, football Wilbur Hess ’35, tennis David Weichert ’37, track and field Frank Gurnsey Jr. ’41, tennis Fred “Moose” Hartman ’41, football Bill Tom Closs ’43, basketball Bill Howton ’52, football Gene Schwinger ’54, basketball Buddy Dial ’59, football Bobby May ’65, track and field 1972 Tiny Kalb ’16, football, basketball Leslie Coleman ’23, tennis, track and field, basketball, baseball Harry Witt ’36, football, basketball Jack Patterson ’39, track and field Frank Carswell ’41, basketball, baseball David “Kosse” Johnson ’54, football Richard Chapman ’54, football Jess Neely, Vanderbilt ’22, football coach, administrator 1973 Mick Brown ’17, football Lawrence Kingsland ’19, track and field Griff Vance ’20, football Joe Davis, Southwestern, Tenn., ’22, football coach, basketball coach Peg Melton ’24, baseball Fred Stancliff ’26, track and field Bobby Curtis ’48, tennis George Walmsley ’48, football Buddy Weaver ’52, golf Frank Ryan ’58, football Robert Johnston ’62, football Eddie Wojecki, trainer 1974 Chester Klaerner ’33 football, baseball, track and field Tally Eaton ’36, basketball, baseball Bill Cummins ’48, track, basketball Huey Keeney ’49, football Gerald Weatherly ’50, football King Hill ’58, football, basketball, golf Rice Hall of Fame Rice Hall of Fame

1975 1985 Philip Arbuckle, Illinois ’05, coach, administrator Kathryn Pearson Keating ’36, tennis Tommie Tomforde ’17, basketball, football Augie Erfurth ’49, track, coach, administrator Smokey Brothers ’36, track and field Jim Fox ’62, baseball, basketball Hamilton Nichols ’47, football Roland Jackson ’63, football J.W. Magee ’48, football Sammy Giammalva, Texas ’56, tennis coach Don Lance ’58, basketball 1986 1976 Bruce Henley ’74 football Gaylord Johnson ’21, administrator Jim Gerhardt ’51, basketball, track and field Tom Cox ’50, track and field Jeff Wells ’76, track and field John Hudson ’54, football Dr. Jack Brannon, Texas ’36, associate team physician Kendall Rhine ’64, basketball Malcolm Walker ’65, football 1987 A.M. “Red” Bale ’36, football, coach, administrator 1978 Calvin Bell ’39, track and field Cecil Grigg, Austin College ’17, football coach, baseball coach, track coach Don Suman ’45, basketball, coach Jess Petty ’37, track and field James Sykes ’77, football Art Goforth ’42, football Carl Russ ’47, football 1988 Don Rhoden ’53, football Ricky Pierce ’82, basketball Chuck Latourette ’67, football Johnny Nichols ’64, football Gary Butler ’72, football 1980 1969 Mile Relay Team (Bill Askey ’70, Conley Brown ’69, Dale Bernauer ’70, Percy Arthur ’35, football Steve Straub ’72) Kenny Paul ’54, football Tom Robataille ’59, basketball 1989 Ed Red ’65, track and field Matt Gorges ’59, football Dr. Edward T. Smith, Baylor College of Medicine ’29, team physician Allan Ramirez ’79, baseball Harold Solomon ’74, tennis 1981 Ken Stadel ’74, track and field Joe Greenwood ’30, golf Leche Sylvester ’36, football 1990 Ronnie Fisher ’61, tennis J.D. Bucky Allshouse ’71, football Dave Roberts ’74, track and field Norm Charlton ’86, baseball Lou Hertenberger, St. Edward’s ’29, football coach 1982 Catherine Baker Nicholson ’81, track and field Ed DePrato ’22, football, track Bill Whitmore, Texas ’42, administrator Mike Hale ’33, track, football, basketball Hank Coffman ’48, track and field 1991 John Garrett ’57, golf Barton Goodwin ’78, golf Rufus King ’61, football Charles Malmberg ’47, football Sam Match ’49, tennis 1983 Mike Novelli ’79, track and field Tim Timmons ’21, basketball Grandpa Wood ’27, football, baseball 1992 Jesse Willis ’30, track and field Mike Estep ’71, tennis Jerry Sims ’58, baseball Regina Cavanaugh-Murphy ’87, track and field Johnny Burrell ’62, football Zan Guerry ’71, tennis Gary Reist ’71, basketball, golf Darryl “Doc” King ’79, track and field Ralph Murphy ’49, football 1984 Quinn Connelley ’34, tennis, football, tennis coach 1993 Richard Kristinik ’61, baseball Marty Froelick ’81, track and field Warren Brattlof ’65, track and field Steve Kidd ’87, football Roger Roitsch ’71, football Butch Seewagen ’68, tennis Tommy Kramer ’77, football Wendy Wood-Yang ’86, tennis Rice Hall of Fame Rice Hall of Fame

1994 2007 Olie Cordill ’40, football Victor Lopez, women’s track and field coach Joe Durrenberger ’56, basketball Mark Quin, baseball Ed Letscher ’39, golf J.D. Smith ’59, football Paul Sanders ’39, track and field Samantha Waldron ’97, volleyball Kay Snell Gerken ’83, swimming 1997 NCAA Indoor 4x100m relay team (Andrea Blackett ’97, TaNisha Mills ’98, Margaret Fox-Melton ’00, Melissa Straker-Taylor ’97) 1995 Butler Perryman ’39, swimming and diving 2009 John Pickens ’68, tennis Allison Beckford ’04, track and field Pam Klassen Lawrence ’88, track and field Don Knodel, Miami University ’53, men’s basketball coach Courtney Hall ’90, football Damon Thames ’00, baseball 1996 2011 Bill Christopher ’43, track and field Rodrigo Barnes ’73, football Rosey Edeh ’90 track and field Kenny Baugh ’01, baseball Leo Rucka ’54, football Bryan Bronson ’95, track and field Larry Whitmire ’58, football Candace Lessmeister ’95, track and field Mandy Mularz ’04, swimming 1997 Greg Williams ’70, basketball Bill Burkhalter ’52 football Dick Dwelle ’43, football 2013 Tanya McIntosh ’89, track and field Jack A. Turpin ’51, tennis Jim Parker ’65, tennis Alice Falaiye ’03, track and field Ryan Harlan ’04, track and field 1998 Cristy McKinney, women’s basketball coach Robyn Bryant ’89, track Stahlé A. Vincent ’72, football Trevor Cobb ’93, football 2003 National Championship Baseball Team Gawain Guy ’87, track and field Ken Whitlow ’41, football 2015 Richard Barker ’04, tennis 1999 William Barker ’04, tennis Jay Knoblauh ’88, baseball Bubba Crosby ’01, baseball Charlie Moore ’37, football, coach, administrator Jarett Dillard ’08, football Temple Tucker ’58, basketball Funmilayo Jimoh ’06, track and field 1982 AIAW Women’s Tennis Doubles Champions (Trace Blumentritt ’83, Susan Rudd ’84) Holly Jones Wright ’88, basketball Brent Scott ’04, basketball 2001 Lauren Shockley ’05, soccer Kareem Streete-Thompson ’96, track and field Valerie Tulloch ’96, track and field 2003 Jose Cruz Jr. ’96, baseball O.J. Brigance ’91, football Gabriel Luke ’92, track and field Claudia Haywood Minor ’93, track and field Martha Hawthorne, LSU ’60, administrator 2005 ’98, baseball Andrea Blackett ’97, track and field Marla Brumfield ’00, basketball , Texas ’70, baseball coach Rice Hall of Fame Rice Hall of Fame

Distinguished “R” Recipients Honorary “R” Recipients

1969 Herbert Allen ’29 1974 Dr. Jack Brannon ’70 1970 H.L. “Tony Bell” ’19 Dr. Edward T. Smith 1971 H. Malcolm Lovett ’21 1975 Mr. Morris Frank Fred J. Stancliff ’26 1978 The Hon. Phil Peden ’38 Lou Hassell ’33 1980 Ms. Joyce Pounds Hardy McDonald ’45 1972 Emmett Brunson ’29 1982 Mr. Bill Whitmore John B. Coffee ’34 Ms. Kathryn Pearson Keating Weldon G. Humble ’47 1985 Mr. Allen Eggert ’63 George R. Miner ’50 1986 Dr. James A. Castañeda Ralph W. Noble, II ’48 1987 Mr. Theodore N. Law Howard D. Fulwiler ’17 1991 Mr. J. Fred Duckett ’55 1973 A.M. “Red” Bale ’36 1992 Mr. Milton McGinty ’69 1974 Robert F. “Bob” Loughridge ’28 1993 Mr. Jim Greenwood ’58 1975 Dr. James Greenwood, Jr. ’27 1994 Mr. J. Evans Attwell 1976 Harry H. Fouke ’35 1996 Mr. Charles Straub 1978 W.C. “Speedy” Moore ’40 1980 W.C. “Billy Ed” Daniels ’53 1998 Mr. Ralph O’Connor W.L. “Dutch” McKinnon ’29 1999 Mr. Hugh Welsh ’56 Lyle L. Payne ’30 2001 Mr. Carl Isgren ’61 1981 Gilbert Leach ’30 2003 Dr. Malcolm Gillis W.C. Treadway ’54 Mrs. Elizabeth Gillis 1982 James V. Carroll ’30 2005 Mrs. Karen Ostrum George ’77 J.D. Bucky Allshouse ’71 2007 Mr. Bob Schlanger ’73 Joe McDermott ’51 2009 Mr. Ron Sass 1984 Vincent Buckley ’47 Mrs. Margie Sass 1985 Alan J. Chapman ’45 2011 Mrs. Audrey Moody Ley Wendel Ley ’32 2013 Mel ’61 and Susanne Morris Glasscock ’62 1986 James K. Nance ’38 Alan Shelby 1987 Lew W. Harpold ’56 2015 Eva Lee ’93 1988 Dr. G. Walter McReynolds ’65 Hally Beth Poindexter ’47 1989 Larry Hamilton ’29 1990 Joyce Pounds Hardy McDonald ’65 1991 Dr. Richard Chapman ’54 1992 George Pierce ’42 1993 Frank Ryan ’58 1994 John L. Cox ’45 1995 Billy Hale ’65 1996 Joe Finger ’39 1997 Ken Simmons ’63 1998 Ben Hollingsworth ’64 1999 Thomas Clanton ’72 2001 Dan A. Drake ’54 Matt Gorges ’58 2003 Paul F. “Chip” Ferguson ’79 2005 Bill Tom Closs ’43 2007 Bobby Tudor ’82 2009 Gene Walker ’65 Dr. Leland Winston ’69 2011 Ralph O’Connor 2013 O.J. Brigance ’92 T. Jay Collins ’68 David Gibbs ’71 2015 Guy Jackson ’69 Tommy Reckling ’54 Stephen Trauber ’84

Rice Athletics 37th Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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All-American

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All-Conference

The Gee and Wilson Families Phoebe and Bobby Tudor

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Letterwinner

Steve and Mary Bradshaw Robert and Susan Estill Analisa and Kyle Frazier Fred and Carol Hansen Guy and Claire Jackson

Walk-on

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